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The Bible and Critical Theory Seminar Calls For Papers

Anyone who knows me is well aware that I truly enjoy (much to the confusion and lament of my close friends and family) those two great tastes that taste great together: the Bible and critical theory! Thus, it is with great pleasure that I pass on the news that The Bible and Critical Theory Seminar has offered a call for papers for BCTS XIV:

Roland Boer, at Stalin's Moustache, writes

Papers typically deal with all areas of biblical studies and critical theory, which we define broadly to cover areas such as feminism, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, narratology, empire studies, new historicism, eco-criticism, queer theory, poststructuralism and so on.

When: Friday-Saturday, 10-11 July 2009 (please note the slight change in date from earlier announcements – the pub doesn’t open on Sundays).

Where: a great old pub called The Grand Hotel, corner of Church and Bolton Streets, Newcastle. You can check it out at http://www.thegrandhotelnewcastle.com.au/. It’s 5 minutes from the beach, 10 minutes from Newcastle Railway station and in the old part of town. We’ll do our usual thing of listen to papers, discuss (more room for that this year), slip away for a drink, etc.

I do miss Australia. And I'll miss this gathering, too.

Check out Roland's blog for the meeting's complete details

You can send paper proposals to him at roland.t.boer(at)gmail.com.

Professor Nigel Yates

 

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Professor Nigel Yates of the University in Wales, Lapeter. Nigel was a wonderful scholar, teacher and Professor of Ecclesiastical History. I remember gratefully reading his masterly study "Buildings, Faith and Worship" on Anglican church interiors 1600 - 1900 (Oxford University Press) a couple of years ago. This book answered so many of my questions about Anglican history and liturgy that it came as a revelation to me.

When I paid a visit to Lampeter a while ago, I was privileged to meet Nigel in person and was delighted to hear that he was working on a similar book looking at the history of Scottish churches. I was very impressed with Nigel's enthusiasm, his warmth and his love he showed for the subject he was working on.

I had known about his illness for a while, not expecting his death to be so imminent. Nigel was just going through the last revisions of his forthcoming book "Preaching, Word and Sacrament". He now won't be able to hold the finished book in his hands.

Our thoughts go to his wife Paula, to his family, friends and colleagues at Lampeter. 

May light perpetual shine upon him.

50th Meeting of Society of Christian Ethics this weekend

Happy New Year, all! We're looking forward to a great year in 2009 and we have a number of new releases to tell you about in the very near future.

This weekend, we'll be at the 50th annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics in Chicago, Il. Be sure to come by our booth and say hello. If you have a proposal or would like to discuss a book idea, please feel free to schedule a meeting. The sessions all look really interesting and it will be wonderful to see all our authors who will be in attendance, too.

Everyone have a safe trip out there and back. I guess you can't have January in Chicago without snow. At least we can all suffer together with Chicago-style pizza. Hey, it doesn't seem so cold anymore!

Editorial Changes at T&T Clark

As we enter the new year I am happy to inform you about some changes in our T&T Clark editorial team in London.

Haaris Naqvi, our editor for Biblical Studies has moved from London to work from our office in New York, where he will build up a new list in Literary Studies. Although Haaris won't be working on the T&T Clark list any more, he will still be the editor for Philosophy of Religion in which capacity he will hopefully post from time to time on the T&T Clark blog!

Dominic Mattos has been promoted to the position of Senior Editor and will take over the Biblical Studies list from Haaris. Many of you know Dominic already as Editorial Assitant and Editor of the Library of New Testament Studies LNTS.

As you have seen from earlier posts, we have been recruiting a new Editorial Assistant for our London office. We are now happy to welcome Anna Turton to the T&T Clark fold. Anna holds degrees from the Catholic University in Lublin (Poland) and the University of Manchester (UK) in Biblical Studies and has previously been working on the SOTS book list.